On a walk through New York last week, I stumbled upon Papabubble, an intriguing candy shop based in Barcelona with an outpost in Manhattan.

The shop is truly a candy paradise. Not only do you get to watch candy in-the-making, but you can also sample several different flavors, such as caramel filled apple, soda, fruit mix, and their current Easter mix. They even have candy molded into enormous lollipop rings.

Here, all the candy is made in the store before your eyes. Papabubble handcrafts their unique candy from sugar and natural essential oils, such as oil of clove.

Papabubble makes custom-made candies molded into specific shapes and with written statements or designs. While I was there, they were making "It's a Boy!" candy for a woman who had just given birth. Their turnaround for bespoke candy is about two weeks.

It's no wonder why Gadling got excited about the opening of Papabubble's New York store. It's located in between the Lower East Side, Little Italy, and SoHo on Broome Street between Mott and Mulberry.

Personally, I can't get enough of the salty-sweet pleasure that comes from eating Sea Salt Caramels and, with the exception of a handful of people who don't seem to like caramel in any form, they're popular with everyone who tries them. So, when Faith, a commenter, mentioned that there was a shop that sold salty caramel ice cream, it sounded like a tip that was worth checking out. Jeni's Fresh Ice Creams does indeed carry Salty Caramel Ice Cream as one of their signature flavors, but their other flavors sound equally as impressive. They include:

• Gravel Road - salty caramel with chopped smoked almonds added
• Honey Vanilla Bean - simple and delicate, with Ohio honey and Madagascar vanilla
• Queen City Cayenne - milk chocolate "Cincinnati style" ice cream with cayenne and cinnamon
• Thai Chili - Krema peanut butter with toasted coconut, cayenne and coconut milk
• Black Coffee - cream steeped with just-roasted coffee (no water). "It tastes like coffee smells."

Finding a restaurant that serves great pizza is great, but there is a certain satisfaction to making you own pizza at home, even if it turns out to be slightly less than the masterpieces that food writers wax poetic about. Besides, if you're creating it from scratch, you have the right to term your creation "artisanal," no matter how it turns out. Pizza: More than 60 Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pizza is a cookbook that will provide you with the basics to making your own pies at home, so you'll be able to make your own masterpieces in your own kitchen. It was co-authored by five-time world pizza-throwing champion Tony Gemignani and cookbook author Diane Morgan. The instructions guide you through the process of making, kneading and shaping dough, then provide you with plenty of ideas of what to do with it. Pizza styles from all over the world are covered, from Chicago and New York to Italy's pizza margherita. Some of the recipes use familiar, classic combinations, while others take advantage of some "California-style" combinations that use Asian flavors, seafood and other somewhat less-common pizza toppings. There is even a dessert pizza recipe with a sweet crust! The best thing about the book is that the instructions are detailed, so you'll have a good grounding in pizza making, and the recipes for the crusts are ones that you can use over and over again.